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From: spl@mcnc.org (Steve Lamont)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: XYZZY
Message-ID: <6100@alvin.mcnc.org>
Date: 18 Jan 90 20:57:20 GMT
References: <4504@rtech.rtech.com> <51073@bbn.COM> <6194@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
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In article <6194@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> jude@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Jude Poole) writes:
>On I-15 between Los Angeles and Las Vegas there is a road with the
>name Xyyzzy or something very similar (I fly nowadays and so haven't
>seen it in a while) This may be where he got the word but I have no
>way of verifying it.

Actually it is Zzyzx Road.  Whatever the hell that is.

							spl (the p stands for
							put a lot of miles on
							the RX-7 between San
							Diego and Vegas...)
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